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Hello, welcome to Crusade With Me podcast.

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This is not a full podcast episode.

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This is what we are calling a Crusade With Me Challenge.

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I am throwing out a challenge to all listeners,

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to people who would take this into heart

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and consider this, that this is Sunday.

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This will be dropping on Sunday evening.

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And the challenge is how to create the mindset

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to have a great week.

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We have a podcast that dropped yesterday,

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talked about mindsets.

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I know it was a little ahead of schedule

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because I plan on doing it today.

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We have a second podcast dropping today,

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talking about weak men and weak churches.

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And that's a second episode of that.

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The first one I did solo,

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this one will be with my son Andrew.

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And I wanna conclude this week

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and I wanna prepare for next week.

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And as we have stated repeatedly,

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I want everybody to be aware,

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just because we're putting this podcast out

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and put this together,

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does not mean that we have all the answers

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and that we are doing some great things.

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We all have challenges

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and we need a community, one another,

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to lean on, to learn from, to encourage

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and continue the fight to be better people.

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So it is Sunday, so what I would like you to do,

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and I have been doing this for a couple of weeks,

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that it has proven very fruitful,

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is sit down and reflect on what went well last week

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and what you accomplished, all right?

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And I've said this time and time again,

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if you had a good week, make a note of it.

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Why?

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Why did you have a good week?

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And then write it down.

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Why you had a good week?

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What did you do that had a good week?

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And then now you've got it documented.

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Hey, read it and maybe have another good week sometime.

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That's why it's important to Sunday,

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afternoons, on the evening, sit down,

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think about this last week.

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What are you grateful for?

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What went well?

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What could you have done differently

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to make something go better than it did?

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We have to learn.

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Also, I want you to sit down

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and think about this coming week.

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Schedule everything that you can for the upcoming week.

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List all the appointed times that you have

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for your commitments for the week.

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Then list out all the tasks

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that you wish to complete in the week.

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Task, goals.

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I have tasks that I have to do.

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Those are sometimes different than that sometimes.

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Most of the time they're different than goals.

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Plan those out.

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Schedule them.

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And then you have to do that.

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You have to do that.

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You have to do that.

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You have to do that.

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You have to do that.

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Schedule time in your plan to commit each task

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that you wish to accomplish.

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And then I want you to wake up Monday morning,

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maybe a little earlier than you normally do, all right?

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My normal wake up time is 4.30,

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so I've been getting up at four o'clock in the morning.

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And let me put it this way.

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If you don't have a schedule like mine

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where I need to be out of the door

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and heading to a location at a specific time,

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schedule a time anyway.

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And I would purport to,

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do you probably need to get up at the same time every day

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anyway, because it's kind of better for your body.

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And it does not take you long to get into that habit.

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I promise you.

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Schedule a time to get up.

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Give yourself about a half hour.

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And this is the challenge, part two of the challenge,

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because part one of the challenges,

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document what we were grateful for,

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what was a good part of last week.

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And then the second part of that is,

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plan out this coming week.

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Write down everything that you got to do on your schedule.

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Schedule time to get things done.

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Because if you don't do that, it's a wish list

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and it'll never happen.

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Schedule it and make it happen.

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And finally, Monday morning when you wake up

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and I want you to do this every morning,

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get up a half hour earlier than you normally would.

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And I want you to do not grab your cell phone.

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See, that's one of my downfalls.

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That's one of my addictions.

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My work is heavily reliant upon my cell phone.

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And it's a terrible habit that I have,

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that first thing I do is grab my cell phone.

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So this is a challenge.

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This week, tomorrow morning, when you rise,

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get up early, a half hour earlier,

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so you have time to do this routine.

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Dare I say ritual, let me call it a routine.

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First thing we need to do is,

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let's start our day with prayer.

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And I've talked about praying a lot on this podcast.

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I'm gonna give you a prayer to pray tomorrow morning

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and every morning thereafter.

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But tomorrow morning, this is the prayer that you can pray.

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I thank you, my heavenly Father,

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through Jesus Christ, your dear son,

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that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger

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and I pray that you would keep me this day also

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from sin and every evil.

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That all my doings and life may please you.

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For into your hands I commend my soul, my body,

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and myself, and all things.

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Let your holy angel be with me,

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that the evil foe may have no power over me.

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It's in Jesus' name that we pray,

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who lives and reigns with you,

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one God now and forever.

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Amen.

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That's the way you're gonna start the day tomorrow.

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I would also suggest you start the day every day

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this coming week by praying that prayer.

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Then for the 27th of January, which will be Monday,

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open your Bible, do some scripture reading.

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And I will purport to you, I will challenge you.

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I'll give you the scripture reading for tomorrow.

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Read Zechariah chapter four

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all the way through chapter five, verse 11.

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When you're done doing that,

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read Romans, Romans chapter 15,

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verses 14 through 33.

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Tomorrow, January 27th,

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in the church it's the honor day for John Christomo.

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Christo, Christ, I can't even say it, Christo.

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There's the challenge.

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This is the first challenge of the year,

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first challenge of this podcast that I'm putting out there.

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Will you crusade with me?

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Sit down today, this evening, Sunday night.

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Reflect on what went well last week and what you accomplished.

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Write it down, also write down what didn't go well

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and how you can handle it differently this coming week.

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Schedule everything that you can from the upcoming week.

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List in a point time of each commitment that you have,

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then list out the tasks that you wish

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to complete or accomplish this week.

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And schedule time in your plan to commit time

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to each task that you wish to accomplish this week.

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And then pray to work at completing these tasks as planned

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and as just by a rearranging life,

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because guess what, life is always changing.

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So you may put the schedule together

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and it might blow up in your face, but guess what?

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Reschedule, don't stop, don't give up, get it done.

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Let's build some consistency.

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Let's frame our mindset to be the best.

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Let's frame our mindset to be that of Christ,

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focusing on Christ.

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There's a challenge, the first challenge of the year,

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first challenge of the podcast.

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May God bless you and keep you.